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====== The Wedding ====== | ====== The Wedding ====== | ||
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- | When the first Northmen started their journeys on the vast eastern rivers three generations ago, they were the exiled | + | When the first Northmen started their journeys on the vast eastern rivers three generations ago, they were the exiles of their villages |
- | Eventually some of them did though, and the northern reaches bore witness to men with boasts of great deeds. | + | Eventually, some of them did though, and the northern reaches bore witness to boasts of great deeds. |
- | Hårik was one of these men. He left as an outcast, but when he returned, he carved a nation on the islands with silver in one hand and a sword in the other. The lands he claimed once belonged to seal-hunters and merchants but under his rule they became a haven of power. He took over the trade routes of fur and slaves and soon it was next to impossible to travel to Birka or Uppsala without | + | Hårik was one of these men. He left as an outcast, but when he returned, he carved a nation on the islands with silver in one hand and a sword in the other. The lands he claimed once belonged to seal-hunters and merchants, but under his rule, those lands became a haven of power. He took over the trade routes of fur and slaves, and soon it was next to impossible to travel to Birka or Uppsala without |
- | Hårik’s travels and adventures are but a memory now. He had three sons who all met a grim death in faraway lands and his only heir left is his stubborn daughter Aino. She inherited her tough wits and temper from her late mother, a woman from the deep forests of Häme. So tough and determined | + | Hårik’s travels and adventures are but a memory now. He had three sons who all met grim deaths |
- | The winter past was a gruesome ordeal for old Hårik. He coughed and moaned through most of it and even the spring warmth | + | The winter past was a gruesome ordeal for old Hårik. He coughed and moaned through most of it, and even the spring warmth |
- | Through | + | Through the spring |
- | It is the eve of the midsummer festival. The great marketplace | + | It is the eve of the midsummer festival. The great clearing |
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===== Grains ===== | ===== Grains ===== | ||
- | * Heart and guts can crush through grim obstacles | + | * Heart and guts can break through grim obstacles |
* The northern summer is a whimsical companion | * The northern summer is a whimsical companion | ||
- | * Woman’s | + | * The hand of a woman rocks the cradle of the fates |
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- | Before the feast has started | + | Before the feast starts, |
- | Viima is a witch from far-north of Turja. The bones he carries with him bear countless spirits of old. Men whisper that he has struck a pact with spirits so powerful that even death itself doesn’t dare to take him to the Underworld. | + | Viima is a witch from far north of the land of Turja. The bones he carries with him bear countless spirits of old. Men whisper that he has struck a pact with spirits so powerful that even death itself doesn’t dare to take him to the Underworld. |
- | Viima is after the lands of Hårik and if he gets what he wants, | + | Viima is after the Hårik’s kingdom, |
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| 3 | **Witch of Lapland ** \\ Viima is a powerful witch. Ancient and horrible. | | | 3 | **Witch of Lapland ** \\ Viima is a powerful witch. Ancient and horrible. | | ||
| 2 | **All-seeing** \\ He can see things beyond the grasp of normal men. | | | 2 | **All-seeing** \\ He can see things beyond the grasp of normal men. | | ||
- | | 2 | **Army of slaves** \\ A hundred warriors and ten servants are at his disposal. | | + | | 2 | **Army of Slaves** \\ A hundred warriors and ten servants are at his disposal. | |
- | | 1 | **Doomed | + | | 1 | **Doomed |
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| 1 | **Horrible** \\ He is equally horrible both in appearance and reputation. He strikes fear to men around him. | | | 1 | **Horrible** \\ He is equally horrible both in appearance and reputation. He strikes fear to men around him. | | ||
- | | 1 | **Debt of unnatural life** \\ He has enslaved spirits but someday | + | | 1 | **Debt of Unnatural Life** \\ He has enslaved spirits, but some day soon they will make him pay for what he has done. | |
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